Marty in the classroom

Using Marty in your classroom is simple! All our education packs come with extras designed to help Marty work in an educational environment. Lesson plans and example activities are provided too.

From primary to tertiary education, Marty has something to offer your students

Select your Class Pack

BUILD YOUR OWN

Building a Marty is a fun and challenging experience for 1-3 students. Get hands on with mechanics and electronics, and in to the nuts and bolts of engineering.

Bringing a Marty to life is a rewarding experience for all

OR

BUY PRE-ASSEMBLED

Skip straight to the coding, and be up and running in minutes with a pack of pre-assembled and pre-configured Martys,

Setting Up

PLUG IN THE HUB

All class packs come with a mini-router that provides a a WiFI network for Marty, so you don't need to rely on school wifi

TURN ON MARTY

Marty will automatically connect to the wifi and be ready to program in seconds

SCRATCH

Connect your device to the Marty Wifi, and load the Marty Scratch page. It will automatically detect the Martys, and you're ready to go!

PYTHON

Get the martypy module on your devices, then connect to Marty WiFi and start coding!

Learning Resources

Lesson plans, example activities, and more

We want to make it easy as possible to get started with Marty, so we've prepared an educator's guide to give you an overview of what you can do with Marty.

You can use our starter lesson plans directly in your class, or use them as inspiration to make your own!

In our educational resources section we've also got loads of example activities you can use to make your own lessons, or give your kids in code club

The Student Experience

We'll let the students speak for themselves

Taking it Further

ADD A PI

Marty is designed to hold a Raspberry Pi.

With a Pi on board you can add a camera and get Marty playing football, or use ROS, the Robot Operating System as used in academia and industry

3D PRINT

All of Marty's parts can be 3D printed, so if you have access to a printer you can let your students make unique customisations to their Martys!

EXPAND

Add extras distance sensors, LED grids, and get your students into some more advanced topics - like solving mazes, or showing how maths be used to predict the movement of a leg or smooth noisy sensor readings.